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100 Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Griest

100 Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Griest highlights 100 special destinations and encourages women of any age to see the world. [Read more →]

December 18, 2007   No Comments

An Interview with Kenyon Farrow

One of the three editors of Letters from Young Activists, Kenyon Farrow talks with The Fight! Project about youth activists and the future of activism.

What do you say makes someone an activist?
I’d say it’s anyone who is doing things to hopefully leave this earth better than they found it. Sometimes we think only people who are a part of organizations, go to demonstrations or are Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson types can be activists. But I think the woman who hides another woman in her home from an abusive spouse is an activist. The person who takes clothes to the kids next door who don’t have anything new is an activist. [Read more →]

November 8, 2007   No Comments

Forsaken: Afghan Women by Lana Šlezić

Forsaken: Afghan Women
by Lana Šlezić

In March 2004, when award-winning photographer Lana Šlezić began an assignment in Afghanistan, she never dreamed she would stay for two years. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the suffocating Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under considerably less oppressive conditions. She soon discovered that life for Afghan women was not as she expected and felt compelled to stay and document their story. [Read more →]

October 16, 2007   No Comments